The Quadrantid meteor stream hits us in the night of Jan. 3/4. Here is the picture from Astronomical Calendar 2016 page 6, but more expansively and with an addition.
Category: miscellaneous
The Sea as a Bell
We traveled by train to Portugal, taking four days, but hastened home at thirty thousand feet.
Tell them in Lacedaemon
A reader writes that she did see Leonidas in the sky.
That’s wonderful! Continue reading “Tell them in Lacedaemon”
Propositions Underfoot
When the pilgrims arrived at the scene of my Astronomical Calendar 2016 cover picture, they had walked more than five hundred miles Continue reading “Propositions Underfoot”
Friggatriskaidekaphobia
Here’s the news from the evening sky: Continue reading “Friggatriskaidekaphobia”
A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar
If you could have looked down through my ceiling during the evenings – not just the evenings – of Continue reading “A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar”
Paperwork Reduction Act
These curious tunnels –
Science and Counter-Science
Dengue is nicknamed “breakbone fever” because of the excruciating pain it causes. Continue reading “Science and Counter-Science”
To cruise or not to cruise?
As we walked free from that ship, I encountered Continue reading “To cruise or not to cruise?”
Muscles of the face
There is an article in the current Continue reading “Muscles of the face”